Well, yes. Yum for Jim, and yum for the kids. Sabrina got a piece of banana cake with cream cheese frosting. Roni got a chocolate chip brownie as big as her face. Jim got a large ice coffee with cream & sugar.

I got a small ice decaf, with Splenda & skim milk. Blech!

Don’t get me wrong — I really enjoy ice coffee with cream & sugar, but in an attempt to be “good” — I went for the Splenda & skim. I think the skim milk is the culprit. I can drink it straight until the cows come home (get it, skim milk, cows? LOL). But in coffee, I think I’m a cream or nothing girl. Cream just makes the coffee taste so good, and skim milk apparently doesn’t. It just makes it light. It makes it drinkable, because I don’t even like black coffee. At all. But it doesn’t make it good.

Same for the Splenda. It made the beverage sweet, but I like the crunchy gritty sugar that you get in the bottom of the cup with the real thing. I know this grosses some people out (sorry!), but that’s just how I like it.

It’s just so unfair that ice coffee the way I like it has about 1,000 calories, and approximately 80 grams of fat. Pout! Whine!

So, while I’m a little bit pleased with myself for not indulging in said calories & fat, my overall opinion is that being “good” sucks. At least when it comes to ice coffee.

Thankfully, Diet Coke does NOT suck, since I’ll be drinking that @ Fenway tonight, one of my top 5 happiest places on Earth. 🙂 I’ll even be drinking it to wash down a fat & calorie packed Fenway Frank, which I have completely earned by exercising self-torture moderation all day before then.

Go Red Sox! ♥

*p.s. The children were each only allowed to eat half of their decadent “snacks”. I’m nice sometimes, but not a complete idiot.